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Chattanooga Update - August 23, 2013

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Channel: chattanooga times free press · 2013 · News & Politics

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A historic golf course that previously held PGA Tour events went up for auction Thursday.

Valleybrook Golf Course was sold to Henry Luken for $950,000 dollars. 
Luken owns three other golf courses in the Chattanooga area. With Valleybrook, he says he plans to improve the course and the clubhouse and make membership private.
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Chattanooga fire investigators have arrested a woman they say set her own house on fire.

Authorities say 36-year-old Melissa Freeman had a mortgage on the house and the fire did about $40,000 dollars in damage.

Freeman lived there with her two daughters. She's been charged with arson and taken to the Hamilton County Jail.
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An East Tennessee lawyer has been charged with three counts of statutory rape.

Kent Lowery Booher was arrested in Harriman and is due in court October 11.

Authorities say Booher's sexual relationships with three underage girls began in December and ran through May 13.
According to the state bar's website, Booher's been a licensed lawyer in Tennessee since 1985, specializing in juvenile law.
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A 12-year-old boy led police on a chase through three counties in East Tennessee Wednesday.

Police say two boys ran away from a children's home and stole a tractor truck in Morristown.

After ramming the truck through a gate, the boys led police on a 40-mile chase to Knoxville.

Police even threw out spike strips, puncturing a tire, but they say the boys kept on going, with speeds up to 65 miles an hour.

Only after the truck crashed did officers realize the driver was only 12 years old.

Both boys were arrested and the driver faces 10 charges, including a felony.
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Jack Daniel's is preparing for a $100 million dollar expansion of its Tennessee distillery.

The company plans to build a second production building on its current site in Lynchburg. The expansion is slated to begin this fall and wrap up in two years.

The investment will be the largest production expansion in the brand's history, and add about 90 full time jobs.

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A Memphis kindergarden student is in police custody after he fired a handgun at his elementary school.

Officials say the gun went off inside the five-year-old's backpack at the Westside Elementary School cafeteria.

There were no injuries and no evidence of harmful intent.

Still, it's unclear where the boy got the gun to begin with.
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Police in west Tennessee have caught a burglar they say broke into people's homes and then stripped for the women inside.

Authorities say women in two Lexington homes woke up to find 41-year-old Dustan Smith in their house naked.

After the suspect was spotted in Madison County, schools were locked down for more than two hours.
Smith has since been jailed on charges of burglary and sexual battery.
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The world's first portable aquaponics system will be made right here in the Chattanooga area.

Ryan Cox has developed a standalone solar-powered system that fits onto the bed of a semitrailer.

Just one of the systems can hold more than 3,000 fish and feed 500 people every week.

They can produce tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, and melons. And at the company's research farm they're growing bass, tilapia, catfish, and cold water perch.

And the best part is, the boxes can go anywhere, be it an empty parking lot in the inner-city or an improvised third world country.

It could even be placed in a war zone so troops could eat fresh food.

Just one of the portable farms will cost you, though. They run about $140,000 dollars each.
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Finally, Track 29 has been ranked as the third most popular music venue in the Southeast.

The ranking comes from global ticketing agency Pollstar, just days before Track 29 celebrates its second anniversary.

Pollstar evaluates venues according to ticket sales, and during the first half of this year, Track 29 sold more than 22,000 tickets.

Overall, the venue ranked 78th most popular on the planet.

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